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X KANDA, I ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, I. 289
Great Rite: thereby he obtains the Great Rite even in this (Agnishtoma).
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9. And the Hotri recites seven metres-each subsequent one-versed (metre) increasing by four (syllables) with the Virâg as an eighth these (eight) consist of three eighties and forty-five syllables. Now by the eighties thereof the eighties (of the mahad uktham) 1 are obtained, for the Great Litany is counted (or recited) by eighties (of triplets); and of the forty-five (syllables which remain) twenty-five are this twenty-five-fold body 2; and where the body is there, indeed, are (included) the head, and the wings and tail; and the twenty (syllables which remain) are the insertion 3,-thus much, then, is the Great Litany: thereby he obtains the Great Litany even in this (Agnishtoma). All these (three) are indeed obtained in the Gyotishtoma Agnishtoma: let him, therefore, perform offering with the Gyotish/oma Agnishtoma.
THIRD BRAHMANA.
1. Pragâpati created living beings. From the out-(and in-) breathings he created the gods, and from the downward breathings the mortal beings; and
887-9); 1o. towards the Mârgâlîya the Yâma (11, p. 461); II. 12. in front and behind the Sadas, the Ayus, and Navastobha (ii, pp 450-51); 13. in front of the Gârhapatya the Risyasya sâman (i1, p. 324).
1 See p. 112, note 1.
2 Viz. the body, as consisting of the ten fingers, the ten toes, the arms and legs, and the trunk.
Towards the end of the Mahad Uktham, in the portion representing the thighs, nine trishtubh verses (Rig-veda III, 43, 1-8, and X, 55, 5) are inserted as an 'âvapanam.'
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